Full Report and Pictures From the Two Tornadoes Confirmed in Eastern Kentucky on Feb 6 2008

...TORNADOES CONFIRMED IN BATH AND MENIFEE COUNTIES...

A STORM SURVEY TEAM CONSISTING OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNELAND BATH COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SURVEYED DAMAGE IN THESTEPSTONE...KENDALL SPRINGS AND POLKSVILLE COMMUNITIES OF BATHCOUNTY. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT AN EF-1 TORNADO WAS RESPONSIBLE FORTHE DAMAGE IN THESE AREAS WITH MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS NEAR 105 MPH.

THE INITIAL TOUCHDOWN WAS ALONG STEPSTONE ROAD JUST NORTH OF THESTEPSTONE COMMUNITY. TORNADO DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT ALMOST CONTINUOUSLYALONG AN 8.7 MILE PATH EAST-NORTHEAST. THE LAST EVIDENCE OF TORNADODAMAGE WAS NEAR HIGHWAY 60 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF POLKSVILLE. AT LEAST 8BARNS AND NUMEROUS OUTBUILDINGS WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED OR DESTROYEDALONG THE TORNADO PATH. TWO MOBILE HOMES WERE ALMOST COMPLETELYDESTROYED...AND HUNDREDS OF TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. THEREWERE NO INJURIES.

THE SURVEY TEAM ALSO REVIEWED DAMAGE TO THE SOUTH OF THE TORNADOTRACK IN THE PEELED OAK...PRESTON AND OLYMPIA AREAS. SIGNIFICANTTREE AND OUTBUILDING DAMAGE WAS EVIDENT. THE TEAM DETERMINED THATTHIS DAMAGE WAS STRAIGHT LINE IN NATURE. ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS WEREIN THE 80 TO 90 MPH RANGE.

IN MENIFEE COUNTY A SURVEY TEAM CONSISTING OF NWS OFFICIALS AND THEMENIFEE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER TOURED DAMAGE IN THE DENISTON ANDKOREA AREAS. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT AN EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN 2MILES NORTH OF DENISTON ON HIGHWAY 1240. THE TORNADO TRAVELEDAPPROXIMATELY 4 MILES TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AND LIFTED ALONG HIGHWAY1693 APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTH OF BIG WOODS. 2 OLDER BARNS WEREDESTROYED AND SEVERAL TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED.